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Well, Humpty Dumpty got the splints taken out of his nose yesterday. Ewwww....they said it would be uncomfortable and hurt a little. He almost threw up it was so painful. We had to sit about 10 minutes just so he could collect himself enough to walk out of the surgeons office.

The good news is, although swollen, his nose is pretty straight.

My desktop and laptop PC's have been running like crap. Slow, pages close, I get thrown off the internet and I feel like it's dial up. I did some researching and found lots of raves about Superantispyware so I checked it out.

It's a free download but when I have the money I'll buy the full version. It's fantastic. I installed it on the desktop PC first because my pages were closing in slow motion whenever they felt like it and my icons were bouncing and flashing on my desktop.

Well, I ran the program and didn't have one hitch happen. My desktop PC runs like it's brand spankin' new. It didn't run that fast or great when I first bought it.

As I'm typing this (on the Mac), I just installed superantispyware on the laptop and now it's running its scanning system. We'll see what happens because the laptop is what has all my embroidery software and designs. I might have to spend the afternoon when I get home from work putting stuff back on but I'm going to cross my fingers and hope all goes well.

Not much else to say this time around except, I highly recommend going to superantispyware.com and giving it a shot on your PC if you're running slow or have a virus (like the one my daughter sent me).

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.....

So now I'm trying to figure out if I'm married to Tim the Toolman Taylor or Humpty Dumpty.  I'm split.  Either one works for me.

Just a few days after our sitting with the family and saying how happy we all were to see 2010 behind us, 2011 shot in with a thud.  First, I'm suppose to tell you D is smiling.  He said if this went on my blog he wanted that said up front.  LOL!

He was unloading the pellets off the back of the truck and got light headed.  Instead of sitting on the wheel well, he decided he should climb down.  Well he didn't make it.  He took a header off the back of the truck and luckily his face broke his fall.  He has a hairline fracture of the right wrist, severe sprain on the left, split the inside of his lower lip open so it has stitches and broke his nose.  I told him I'm getting to old for this sh.....!

He was in the hospital from Tuesday morning to 6 p.m. Friday night.  He refused dinner because he wanted home made soup from his wife.

He's been on a heart monitor all week and had a little blip once.  That sent some cardiologist in who immediately wanted to do surgery and implant some sort of monitor in his chest.  Both our personal physician and son believe because he hadn't eaten since the previous day, and was bending up and down while straining, he slowed the blood to his head by the up and down motion along with straining the vegal muscle which slows the flow of blood to the heart.  They also changed his meds thinking it could have contributed to the lightheaded episode.

So if I can get that husband of mine to eat, keep fluids in himself, don't overdo and strain and keep his meds up to date, we should live to a nice long retirement age.  Hmmmm....I think in some worlds that's called moderation.

So here's to starting 2011 on a down note and ending it on an up one.

Christmas

D gave me this adorable teapot for Christmas. It has two handles because the top portion is the actual teapot and the bottom part is the cup. Now I think I need one of those little hot plates to keep it warm for me. It cools off very quickly.

I got D a Flip video camera. He's been busy the past two days taking pictures and editing them into videos. He's getting pretty good at it too. We're attempting to make some do it yourself videos for women. I'd like to start with very easy projects and slowly morph into more advanced stuff.

We celebrated Christmas on New Years Eve this year. It was nice to celebrate so close to the actual date.

This is Sean, he's been scared to death of all the dogs since he was a baby. He had a stupid uncle that teased and scared him with a dog so he freaks out when he sees one.

This Christmas, we got him to finally touch Nuttie and the Bear. It took him about an hour and then he wouldn't leave them alone. The bear finally took off and hid in her closet and Nuttie spent the night running away from him. She spent a lot of time jumping from lap to lap of each adult.

I think we may have created a monster. LOL!

I'm a convert.

When my friends from Australia visited earlier this year they brought me some Uggs. Well, they don't call them that there but you get what I mean. Apparently they originated is Aussieland and they thought I'd like a pair.

My feet were so cold the other day, even my warm sister made socks didn't help so I rummaged in my closet and pulled these out. Oh my, they're absolutely fantastic. Not only were my feet warm (without sweating) but so were my calves and ankles. I'm definitely in love and owe my Aussie family a great super warm thank you!

Yesterday was a long day. When I got home D had a nice fire going for me to relax in front of in the living room fireplace. Before I could pull up a chair and my Kindle, Nuttie picked out her spot and plopped herself down for a nap or two. As long as I was in the room, she was too.

Nissie doesn't like heat from the fireplace or space heaters. She prefers the electric blanket. I don't know why but she does. Nuttie will take heat anywhere she can get it.

Odd Couple of Days

It's been an odd few days. Friday I spent 3 hours sewing out this applique name tag for D's work apron. It's got over 300,000 stitches so takes forever to sew out.

Anyway, everything was going perfectly until about the last 3 minutes. Check out the bottom of the design. For some reason the darn thing came out of registration. I'm thinking it's because of the large size of the design and it has to go into my biggest hoop. It's too big for the next hoop down but too small for my largest hoop.

I've been scratching my head on how to stabilize the darn thing. I might change some of the sew out order and see if that might do the trick. Oh well....who says life was supposed to be easy? LOL!

I spent all day Saturday putting up more Christmas decorations. I have about 2/3 of them out and have decided to quit. I've got to come up with a quicker and easier method of decorating.

Soooo...the family room pretty much only has the fireplace decorated. The kitchen, living room and entry hall are decorated. Normally the entire house is festive, especially the family room but not this year. A lot of the problem is, now I'm working so time is at a minimum and my shoulder is killing me. Sigh....myabe next year.

I was pooped and pretty much useless yesterday (Sunday). I loaded a book on my Kindle, listened to the monsoon winds try and pull the shingles off the roof and watched the backyard rapidly fill up with the few leaves that were left on the trees. Yikes, what a mess!

I have to admit, I'm all rested today. I think a day of lazing around in my big chair reading and occasionally napping did the trick. I made the mistake of turning on the lap blanket to keep warm. That mean a lap full of wiener dogs. Oh well, with their weight, they also add warmth.

Catch up time!

Okay, I'm back. Like my niece, I quit blogging because I didn't feel like anyone was reading what I wrote. So now I'm back until I feel like I'm wasting my time again.

While I've been away from the bloggersphere I've done a few things. D and I picked up a few cars for Peter. Check out the Cuda above. It's a mess but the Aussies will love it. Go figure. It should be on the ocean now heading toward Australia by now.

The Cuda is actually a pretty good looking car compared to some of the stuff Pete buys and ships.

D and I picked this beauty up in Santa Rosa. It was just shy of a 6 hour trip. We left after I got off work at 2, so it was a long day.

We brought it home and then D called S to see if he'd like to take it to Oakland PLI with him. As you can guess, the kid had a blast. It put a little spark in him to work on the frame off restoration of his Chevelle a bit more.

Each year at Thanksgiving D cooks the turkey in the Webber. He's done that about 25 years and each year he tries to figure out how long to cook it. It must be a 'man' thing.

This year he took a picture of his cooking time calculation and wants to print it and put it in the Webber cookbook. Looks like a recipe from the cold war to me.

H came home for Thanksgiving. It's the first time we've seen her since she moved 8 months ago. She won't be coming home for Christmas, so this visit is going to have to last us until next November.

I don't know if the red eye will show when this posts. I felt it was appropriate to leave it because it really shows the inner aura of my little devils. LOL!

The decorations at work are minimal but the tree is beautiful. One of the couples who works there have relatives that own Windmill Farms. They brought in this beautiful tree and decorated it for us.

I told Maureen this morning that she's got the best smelling room in the entire building. The tree really looks beautiful when it's dark a yucky out. Once the newness wore off, I noticed how the tree leans to one side. Now it drives me a little bit crazy when I'm filling in for Mo at the front desk.

Okay, that's the end of this post. I promise to try and put something on at least once a week. Hopefully I might actually post twice in a week.

Upside...downside...

The downside.....I'm looking up more these days. While D was making the bedroom look nice and up to date, I noticed this huge cobweb in the entry hall. Look at this beast.

How can you go so long and not notice something like this? One day you look up and WHAM! There it is.

It starts at the ceiling and connects to the dolphin's mouth in the fountain. What's worse is, it isn't fine and thin. It's thick, dusty and definitely visible.

Now the decision is, take it down or see how big it gets for Halloween. If we were going to have a party, I think I'd leave it. You know, just to be annoying to the hubby.

I have a feeling I'll give in and suck it up with the vacuum cleaner. We'll see how long I can hold out.